Two stars that were thought to be among the first produced in the universe were in fact formed from the explosion of an older star, according to astrophysicists in Japan. Ken'ichi Nomoto and colleagues from the University of Tokyo came to this conclusion by comparing the chemical composition of the...
A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus , a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near L...
Title: The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 Author: Shriharsh P. Tendulkar (McGill U.), Cees Bassa (ASTRON), James M. Cordes (Cornell U.), Geoffery C. Bower (ASIAA), Casey J. Law (UC Berkeley), Shamibrata Chatterjee (Cornell U.), Elizabeth A. K. Adams (ASTRO...
Title: The Role of Drag in the Energetics of Strongly Forced Exoplanet Atmospheres Authors: Emily Rauscher (1), Kristen Menou (2) ((1) University of Arizona, (2) Columbia University) In contrast to the Earth, where frictional heating is typically neglected in atmospheric modelling, we show th...
Title: Asymmetric transit curves as indication of orbital obliquity: clues from the brown dwarf companion in KOI-13 Authors: Gy. M. Szabo, R. Szabo, J. M. Benko, H. Lehmann, Gy. Mezo, A. E. Simon, Zs. Kovari, G. Hodosan, Zs. Regaly, L. L. Kiss KOI-13.01, a planet-sized companion in an optical doubl...
Title: Detection of the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the Hot Subdwarf Companion of 60 Cygni (B1 Ve) from a Survey of IUE Spectra of Be Stars Author: Luqian Wang, Douglas R. Gies, Geraldine J. Peters We used archival International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) high-dispersion, short wavelength spectra d...
Human-Like Walking is Ancient Meet "Lucy's" Great-Grandfather. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie led an international team that discovered and analysed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Eth...
The first annual Kyoto Prize at Oxford event took place on the 9th and 10th May The Kyoto Prize is awarded annually to those who have made an outstanding achievement in Basic Sciences, Arts and Philosophy, and Advanced Technology. As part of a major new partnership between the University and the Inam...
TRAPPIST-1, also known as 2MASS J23062928-0502285, is an ultracool dwarf star located 39.13 light-years (12.0 pc) away in the constellation Aquarius. Read more
Title: X-Ray Superflares on CC Eri Author: Subhajeet Karmakar, J. C. Pandey, V. S. Airapetian, Kuntal Misra We present an in-depth study of two superflares (F1 and F2) detected on an active binary star CC Eridani by the Swift observatory. These superflares triggered the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT...
Title: The unstable fate of the planet orbiting the A-star in the HD 131399 triple stellar system Author: Dimitri Veras, Alexander J. Mustill, Boris T. Gaensicke Validated planet candidates need not lie on long-term stable orbits, and instability triggered by post-main-sequence stellar evolu...
Title: Unusual rainbows as auroral candidates: another point of view Author: V.M.S. Carrasco, R.M. Trigo, J.M. Vaquero Several auroral events that occurred in the past have not been catalogued as such due to fact that they were described in the historical sources with different terminology. Hay...